Sloth-Nielsen, Julia(Nelson R Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare, 2009)

This article examines the principle of child participation in a legal context, focusing first on the international and constitutional law framework, and thereafter on the principle as it has permeated the South African ...

Introduction:Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a complex topic that has generated a host of policy documents and a vast literature. This article sets out to examine a very specific aspect of it: the impact of CSR ...

Traditionally a judicial officer was not required to consider the effects
of the imposed sentence on the children of the offender, even if the
offender was a primary caregiver of young children. The Court in S v M
(Centre ...

Although the two countries are thousands of miles apart, Uganda and South Africa have both
experienced service delivery protests in recent years. The protests have been directed mainly
at local governments, although in ...

Unlike the constitutions of other African countries such as Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Zimbabwe and Namibia which expressly provide for grounds on which a person may not be discriminated against, the Constitution ...

Scholarly interest in the co-existence of normative orders in African social
fields tends to focus on conflicts arising from the interaction of customary
law with state law. This article takes a different path by revealing ...

By charting the contribution of social development service delivery to enhance child justice in South Africa from 1996 to 2006, this article argues that the contribution of the social development sector to child justice ...

Introduction:'Abraham Adamson, owner of A&A Motor Spares in Athlone, Cape Town, was dealing with a client in June 1991 when the sheriff of the court walked in and seized 21 gearboxes and various other movable assets.
His ...

The purpose of this article is to assess the decision of the Nigerian High
Court in the Ahamefule case. While the case would seem to be a victory
for people living with HIV in the country, it left some important ...

This paper describes the DIME (Diversion into Music Education) youth intervention program that originated in South Africa in 2001. DIME offers instruction in African marimba and djembe bands to juvenile offenders. Conceived ...

The Legal Practice Act (LPA) appears to have far-reaching implications for legal practitioners at university law clinics. This article will, however, focus only on the compulsory requirement that attorneys at university ...

This article questions the common assumptions in legal theory regarding Derrida’s well-known Declarations of Independence. Through a close reading of this text, well-known ground such as the relation between speech and ...

de Visser, Jaap; Mapuva, Jephias(University of the Western Cape, 2013)

Local governance in Zimbabwe has a chequered history. Despite high hopes for democratic local governance on the attainment of political independence in 1980, it has often defied democratic practice and is yet to bring ...

Sir Edward Coke is known for having played a central role in establishing the power of the common law courts to exercise a supervisory jurisdiction over the executive/administration. Coke is usually praised in the literature ...

For many years courts in Mauritius have considered a conviction that was
at least 10 years old to be spent for the purpose of sentencing. However, in
2002 the Mauritian Supreme Court held that there was no concept of ...

The role played by international law in guaranteeing the right to an adequate standard of living is an important one.1 For a number of years, international bodies have sought to introduce certain levels of financial and ...

Durojaye, Ebenezer; Mirugi-Mukundi, Gladys(Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, 2013)

Recently a Kenyan High Court in P.A.O and others v Attorney General and another (hereinafter P.A.O) handed down a judgment in relation to sections 2, 32, and 34 of the Anti-Counterfeit Act vis-à-vis Kenya's obligations ...

Introduction:An issue that has received little attention in our law is the nature of a union's duty vis-à-vis its membership in the course of collective bargaining and the consequences of breach of such duty. This is, in ...

Individuals are increasingly having recourse to assisted or artificial reproduction in order to realise their desire for offspring. This field is
currently regulated by the National Health Act No. 61 of 2003 (NHA, or the ...